On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Mohamed El Morabity <pikachu.2014@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 2010/4/29 Kirk Lowery <empirical.humanist@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan >> <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 08:24 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: >> >> After googling around, it seems that OpenOffice 3.2 won't be >> >> officially packaged for Fedora 12. I really would like to upgrade to >> >> it because 3.2 now handles OpenType fonts. >> >> >> >> Can anyone confirm that 3.2 definitely won't be packaged for F12? In >> >> that case, what would be the best alternative? Are there reliable >> >> third-party rpms? Or install from the tarball? >> > >> > Unless your need is very urgent, the easiest would be to wait a few >> > weeks and upgrade to F13. Or even do it now if you feel brave :-) >> >> Thanks, but I'd prefer not to upgrade to F13. Long experience has >> taught me that the best way to upgrade Fedora is do back up the disk, >> wipe the hard drive and reinstall Fedora fresh. Since that takes major >> effort and loss of productivity, for the past several years I have not >> upgraded to every new version bump. So I upgraded from F10 to F12, and >> am waiting for F14 to upgrade again. >> >> Having OOo 3.2 is not mission critical. But it would be *very* >> convenient. That's why I was wondering if there is a set of rpms that >> could be used which were competently built that would not mess up my >> F12 install; or, failing that, install from the generic tarball. I'd >> be interested in the experience of anyone who has done this. > > OpenOffice.org provides RPMs for each new version, especially 3.2: > http://download.openoffice.org/other.html > OpenOffice.org is splitted into several RPMs embedded in a tar.gz archive, > with installation instructions. > If you choose to install this version, don't forget to remove the Fedora > version of OOo. You may also block updates of OpenOffice.org from the Fedora > repositories to avoid packages conflics. Okay, you encourage me to do this. Yes, I had read about the problem of mixing rpms and blocking updates. Thanks for the response! Kirk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
